December 12, 2007

Plenty to do today, so I rose unsually early. I’m a firm believer in using checklists of many sorts. Yellow legal pad is my favorite. I’m pretty bad about using them efficiently. I’ll use a page to make a list for something, then trash it without using a quarter of the piece of paper. I can’t say that I care, especially if everything on the list got done.

I used to use MS Excel for copious list-worthy endeavors. But you find that MS Office documents are notoriously difficult to take with you using the fold-up method. Plus there was the time I had to downgrade from the Office 2007 version to Office 2003. Effectively rendering a whole year’s worth of financial data unusable (till I freaked out and eventually fixed the problem). That’s a nightmare I don’t want to live through again.

I’ll bet that within the next 15-20 years electronic documents will be easier to use and much more convenient too. I think of it as the old man saying, “I want to be able to press one freaking button and make it all work.” I credit an old roomate from college for that idea. His dad was the original “one button” person. I think in his case he was referring to an entertainment center, but you get my idea.